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OneKitly

randomly

adverbattested in dialogue

  • //ˈɹændm̩li//

In a random manner.

adverb

  1. 1

    In a random manner.

    I just randomly remembered this dream from 2 years ago.

    It is easy to implement, is not cost-prohibitive, and provides unbiased randomly sampled data in an ethically acceptable manner.

    Every microgame lasts five seconds until it shifts to the next randomly selected ruleset.

  2. 2

    By random access; at any point at a given time; not sequentially.

    When a file is accessed randomly, the programmer must specify the relative record number.

Etymology

From random + -ly.

Forms

comparative
more randomly
superlative
most randomly
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).